City of London Shakeout Puts a Spotlight on Broker Peel Hunt

Twenty years ago, one of the crucial choices for any company hoping to join the London stock market was picking a corporate broker.

A financial crisis and thousands of pages of regulations later, broking names like Hoare Govett, Collins Stewart and Cazenove have been swept away by takeovers. For the companies braving the UK equity markets nowadays, a shrinking number of mostly international firms are left to help.

It’s left one broker in a unique position as a big yet still independent firm guiding clients through their interactions with the public markets. Peel Hunt Ltd. has been through ownership changes ...